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Black Fridays

A Novel

A Novel

By Michael Sears

By Michael Sears

By Michael Sears

By Michael Sears

By Michael Sears
Read by Erik Bergmann

By Michael Sears
Read by Erik Bergmann

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Part of A Jason Stafford Novel

Part of A Jason Stafford Novel

Part of A Jason Stafford Novel

Mass Market Paperback $9.99

Sep 03, 2013 | ISBN 9780425269046

Ebook $3.99

Sep 18, 2012 | ISBN 9781101600221

Audiobook Download $17.50

Sep 18, 2012 | 662 Minutes

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    About Black Fridays

    One of Booklist‘s “Year’s Best Crime Novels”

    After two years in federal prison, Jason Stafford is no longer welcome on Wall Street. But due to his financial crime expertise, one firm wants him to quietly look for irregularities in the books of one of their junior traders, whose body was just pulled from the Long Island Sound.

    Raising an autistic five-year-old alone, Stafford can’t refuse the lucrative offer. The job is supposed to last two weeks, tops. But soon he’s facing threats and intimidation, and more people are dying. Stafford must fight for his life—while struggling to save his son from a different kind of danger…

    Nominated for the Edgar® Award for Best First Novel

    About Black Fridays

    One of Booklist‘s “Year’s Best Crime Novels”

    After two years in federal prison, Jason Stafford is no longer welcome on Wall Street. But due to his financial crime expertise, one firm wants him to quietly look for irregularities in the books of one of their junior traders, whose body was just pulled from the Long Island Sound.

    Raising an autistic five-year-old alone, Stafford can’t refuse the lucrative offer. The job is supposed to last two weeks, tops. But soon he’s facing threats and intimidation, and more people are dying. Stafford must fight for his life—while struggling to save his son from a different kind of danger…

    Nominated for the Edgar® Award for Best First Novel

    About Black Fridays

    Sometimes a man can be redeemed. But not in the way he expects.

    Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He’s unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big – there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed.

    But it’s not his only concern. Stafford has another quest as well: to reclaim his five-year-old son, “the Kid,” from his unstable ex-wife, and then learn just what it means to make a life with him. The things Stafford discovers about himself in the process are every bit as gripping as his investigation, and when the two threads of his life come together – the results are unforgettable.

    Black Fridays marks the arrival of a remarkable new writer.

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    About Michael Sears

    Michael Sears spent more than 20 years on Wall Street, rising to become the managing director in the bond trading and underwriting divisions of Paine Webber and later, Jefferies & Company. Black Fridays was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Shamus, and ITW… More about Michael Sears

    About Michael Sears

    Michael Sears spent more than 20 years on Wall Street, rising to become the managing director in the bond trading and underwriting divisions of Paine Webber and later, Jefferies & Company. Black Fridays was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Shamus, and ITW… More about Michael Sears

    About Michael Sears

    Michael Sears spent more than 20 years on Wall Street, rising to become the managing director in the bond trading and underwriting divisions of Paine Webber and later, Jefferies & Company. Black Fridays was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Shamus, and ITW… More about Michael Sears

    Product Details

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Mass Market Paperback | $9.99
    Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
    Sep 03, 2013 | 432 Pages | 4-1/4 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780425269046

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $3.99
    Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
    Sep 18, 2012 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9781101600221

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Sep 18, 2012 | 662 Minutes | ISBN 9781101579558
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    Praise

    “An exciting and fascinating tale of big money and even bigger crime.”—Joseph Finder

    “One of the best books I’ve read this year.”—John Sandford

    “One of the year’s finest crime debuts.”—Booklist 
     
    “Immediately captivating.”—The Dallas Morning News
     
    “Never has Wall Street been so interesting and so dangerous.”—Lisa Gardner
     
    “Sears does the near impossible in this high-finance thriller: He turns a Wall Street executive, who’s just served jail time for fudging figures, into a sympathetic character.”—Kirkus Reviews

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